Ernst Bickel

Ernst Johann Friedrich Bickel (born November 26, 1876 in Wiesbaden ; † April 10, 1961 in Bonn ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Ernst Bickel was born and baptized as a Protestant son of the doctor of the same name Ernst Bickel and his wife Bertha, nee. Schellenberg. He studied Classical Philology at Bonn University with Franz Bücheler , Hermann Usener and Anton Elter and received his doctorate in 1900. Since 1906 he was married to a Norwegian. After his habilitation in Bonn (1906) he was appointed associate professor in Greifswald and in the summer semester of 1909 he went to the University of Kiel in the same position . In 1921 he was appointed full professor at the University of Königsberg . In the summer semester of 1928, he followed a call to the vacant chair of Friedrich Marx in Bonn. In 1935 he also took over the editing of the Rheinisches Museum für Philologie from Marx , which he held until the last volume of the series (92/1944). During the Weimar Republic , Bickel was involved in the national liberal German People's Party .

During the time of National Socialism , Bickel was loyal to the regime, but without making any political promises. He joined the National Socialist Teachers' Association in 1933 , but was not committed to the prevailing ideology and kept National Socialist influences out of his research. His retirement, due in 1941, was postponed because of his services in teaching and research and his popularity with students. From the summer semester of 1943 to the winter semester of 1943/1944, Bickel was Dean of the Philosophical Faculty.

After the end of the Second World War , Bickel remained in office as a professor of classical philology. He retired in 1948, at the age of 71, and took over the newly founded professorship of eloquence, which he only gave up in 1960 (at the age of 84). In 1948, Bickel re-founded the Rheinisches Museum für Philologie magazine while retaining the old count.

Bickel lived at Hohenzollernstrasse 8 in Bonn-Bad Godesberg. His older brother Adolf Bickel was a doctor and associate professor for pathophysiology at the University of Berlin.

literature

• Helmut Beumann : In memoriam Ernst Bickel: Speeches, on June 15, 1961 at the memorial ceremony of the Philosophical Faculty of the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University in Bonn . Bonn 1961.
• Peter Robert Franke : Ernst Bickel (1876–1961). A visit to Rome in 1953 . In: Eikasmós 4, 1993, pp. 127-128.
• Hans-Paul Höpfner: The University of Bonn in the Third Reich: Academic biographies under National Socialist rule . Bonn 1999.
• Clemens Zintzen : Ernst Bickel on Hans Herter . In: Eikasmós 4, 1993, pp. 129-130.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ernst Bickel in the catalog of the German National Library

• Literature about Ernst Bickel in the state bibliography MV
• Ernst Bickel in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Estate in the Bavarian State Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Höpfner (1999) 425.